Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That?s right. From Microsoft to Big Tobacco to our very own government, nothing wounds a giant more reliably than some candid internal documents ?- and this case is no different. Some of the uncovered memos attest to Justice?s knowledge that it was breaking the 1945 law; others point even further, to two sets of books: one for the payroll department and another for supervisors, who tallied up overtime hours as a measure of a lawyer?s efforts. The case will be defended by other Justice Department lawyers, lawyers who stand to get paid more if they lose...
...armored vehicles, waving their fists and chanting their defiance in the face of an unyielding regime. This time, however, the ruling party is the African National Congress, which those same workers helped bring to power ?- and the protest signifies the end of the post-apartheid honeymoon between socialist-inclined big labor and their market-oriented allies in government. After seven months of bitter negotiations, the two sides have failed to agree on a wage increase for public-sector employees, and the unions on Tuesday mounted a one-day national strike as a warning shot of industrial action to come...
ISIS, THEREFORE I STAPLE: The Egyptian goddess Isis put her torn-to-pieces husband back together--big shoes for a stapler to fill. But Julian Brown, the British designer of Isis, has a history of creating ambitious office supplies: he gave us Hannibal, the similarly spiffy tape dispenser. When stood on her nose, the front-loading, translucent Isis ($68) rocks gently back and forth, making her the ideal accessory for the desk of the overpaid but underworked...
...dose of classic leftism, into a thus far pale political season. "The political system is so corrupted, we don't really need a third party. We need a second one," Beatty said, affirming his faith in Jack-and-Bobby liberalism and voicing a fear that America was becoming a big-money "plutocracy...
...future. The country's largest city, Istanbul, whose population has doubled every 10 years since 1955, sits along a fault line and has long been warned to expect a devastating earthquake. "As bad as last week?s earthquake was," says Finkel, "experts agree that it wasn?t the ?big one? that Istanbul?s been warned about...